Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist, born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, who started writing poems at six. Her books include the poetry collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle, which looks at the Middle East after September 11, and the novel Habibi. In 2013 she received the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, and she served as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate for 2019 to 2022.